laurent binet

Dan Brown Meets Roland Barthes in ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

Dan Brown Meets Roland Barthes in ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

Laurent Binet's over-the-top amalgam of the airport conspiracy thriller and the French intelligentsia poses a simple question: can high theory be thrilling?

Literary Theory Gets Bloody in Laurent Binet’s ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

Literary Theory Gets Bloody in Laurent Binet’s ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

The Seventh Function of Language is either a grand farce or fashionable nonsense.

The Worst Man Who Ever Lived: ‘HHhH’